02 Feb
Sysco
Calgary
Executive Vice President, Prairies Region
Reports To
Regional President, Prairies Region
Location
Prairies Region (Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, or Regina
Type
Salaried
Closing Date
February 14, 2025
Company Overview
Sysco connects the world to share food and care for one another. Sysco leads from the heart of food and service to deliver the freshest of foods and ideas to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other customers who prepare meals away from home. Our customers can count on us to deliver on-point products and solutions since only Sysco is the global leader, sitting at the heart of innovation supply, delivery, culinary and more.
With over 57,000 associates and a fleet of over 13,000 vehicles, Sysco operates approximately 326 distribution facilities worldwide and serves more than 625,000 customer locations. For fiscal 2024 that ended July 2, 2024, the company generated sales of more than $68 billion USD.
Sysco, one of Canada’s Best Employers 2024, as listed by Forbes, is dedicated to our global corporate social responsibility goals and to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We offer our associates the opportunity to grow personally and professionally, to contribute to the success of a dynamic organization, and to serve others in a manner that exceeds their expectations.
Sysco is more than just a place to work. Our passion for food and our customers has made us the industry leader. To remain on top, we will continue to think bigger, work harder and never give up. Are you ready to drive success?
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Role:
The Executive Vice President will be at the heart of customer centricity and elegant execution daily,
absorbing and enhancing the natural operating cadence of the company’s Region. This role will provide site leadership, building strong customer relationships, monitoring, and improving operational activities and cadences, and leading and shaping a productive, positive, and inclusive workplace culture and environment.
Role Responsibilities:
- Understand and drive the Annual Operating Plan and allocate resources. Monitor and remove obstacles from the end-to-end business, harmonizing functions to deliver against Plan.
- Strategize, identify, propose, and commit resources sufficient to support our customers, help grow their businesses, increase sales and grow market share; know market potential, trends, competitive set; become known as an expert on food service in the area. Support the sales organization in their KPIs,
and the Sysco Partnership Selling Process.
- Manage area operations to meet budget and other financial goals. Ensure food quality and safety and organizational stability through close attention to standards, controls, and systems. Advance the sharing of best practices across all functions.
- Develop and report on key metrics tied to financial and strategic objectives and craft communications that resonate from the executive team to the hourly associate.
- Diagnose business problems and create improvement interventions with the customer at the center, which may involve the design, implementation, and management of small to large-scale organizational change initiatives.
- Develops individual associates within the region, including engaging in one-on-one coaching conversations for performance and career advancement. Uses positive, enthusiastic,
and collaborative messaging that creates an exciting and upbeat environment.
- Support Diversity & Inclusion, creates and models an inclusive culture that allows all associates to thrive and succeed. Creates an environment that embraces diverse opinions and backgrounds – can blend the best of multiple points of view.
- Unite cross-functional leaders, championing a cohesive business plan and bringing focus to shared key priorities. Engender a “customer first” culture and mindset. Work professionally with others in the facility and across the enterprise toward shared goals.
- Complies with Sysco’s Food Safety Policy and procedures to ensure food safety, quality and legality requirements are met.
- Understands both the economic and cultural value that a safe organization with minimal environmental impact brings to an organization.
- Is willing to drive Environmental, Health and Safety performance by providing necessary resources and holding their team accountable to complying with EHS programs, policies, and requirements.
- Positively influence and shape a large and inclusive organizational culture to be one that’s productive, vibrant, and a desirable place to work.
- Ability to effectively lead change and transformational initiatives through sound change management practices that will ensure sustained adoption, including stakeholder engagement across multiple functions
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications/Skills/Job Requirements (About you):
- Minimum of ten (10) years of experience in a leadership role, with at least five (5) years as a core member of a senior leadership team
- Completion of a bachelor’s degree in Business Management or related field
- Exposure/familiarity to Lean Six Sigma environment is an asset
- Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Office including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook
- Ability to understand, interpret, and use complex financial and operational data and metrics that drive a P&L;
- Knowledge of current and future business which can be leveraged to maximize operating margin and increase shareholder value
- Knowledge of contracting, negotiating, and change management
- Skill in examining and re-engineering operations and procedures
- Valid driver’s license with access to a vehicle may be required (travel up to 40%)
Internal candidates apply via the Career Centre on your HR Portal / ADP Workforce Now.
External candidates submit cover letter & resume via www.sysco.ca/careers
Our Purpose:
Connecting the world to share food and care for one another
Our Mission:
Delivering success for our customers through industry-leading people, products and solutions
Our Identity:
Together we define our future of foodservice and supply chain
Sysco is committed to Employment Equity. Accommodations during the recruitment process are available upon request for candidates with disabilities.
Here’s a sample of the many benefits Sysco associates enjoy:
Comprehensive Flexible Benefits including Health and Dental, Health Care Spending and Wellness Accounts • Short-Term and Long-Term Disability • Life Insurance • Voluntary Optional Insurance • Parental Leave Plan • Company Pension Plan • Group RRSP • Employee and Family Assistance • Stock Purchase Plan • Maple Virtual Care • Unlimited on-line learning • Sysco product discounts • Preferred vendor discounts • Associate Resource Groups
(*benefits may vary based on location or bargaining unit)
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